Kanye West has been going through a period of soul searching. No, really. He took to twitter to ask "I usually never tweet questions but I struggle with this so here goes... Is the word BITCH acceptable?"

That’s his capitals.

He then explained someone had questioned him about why he uses the word, had initially been offended someone would question his music, and then got to thinking. So he went on to say "Here's the age old question, would we refer to our mothers as bitches? Would we call our fathers niggers or better yet NIGGAS?" adding "Perhaps the words BITCH and NIGGA are now neither positive or negative. They are just potent and it depends on how the[y] are used and by whom?"

We throw the floor open to the Supajam audience: do you get offended by the use of bitch in rap?